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my otos were showing off so i figured I'd take the opportunity to share our flowering anubias. i got some good shots, too bad all i have is my iphone camera. we're not sure if the pod will actually open, but either way we're pretty psyched about it :D hope you enjoy
 

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do you know how long it generally takes for them to open? it shot up about two and a half to three weeks ago. I've been considering moving it to my higher light tank, would that help it?
 
it takes a long time. I don't recall the duration, but I remember thinking to myself every day "whats taking so long?"
 
hehehehehe :D same here!!! first thing I do every morning is check to see if it's happened yet
 
This is excellent! How do you get anubias to flower like this? Dose it do it as a part of natural growth?

I have one on some driftwood in my tank.
 
lol I know right? I was just as surprised as you, I had no clue anubias' did this. it's wicked rad though :mrgreen: I didn't do anything special to get it to flower, it just shot up one day (or over the course of a few hehe) for the majority of it's life I've had the plant in very low light with a weekly dose of flourish excel. before the flower came up it was moved to another tank, and is now under 36w of T5HO lighting.
 
Have you ever thought of putting a black background on your tank? I think that would make your tank look even more incredible! Btw...your tank looks great :)
 
thanks, Joyler. I actually had a black background but it was supposed to be an adhesive kind and I just taped it up, so it looked terrible. I do plan to figure out a better black background at some point.

thanks, Rosenweiss, I think so, too :D
 
actually I was thinking this is my 20 g H tank but this us actually our 27 g hex tank. there's no good way to put up a background, but we did have a blue one on just the very back panel for a bit and it looked okay. maybe when we do the background for the 20 I'll see what I can do for this tank.

it looks a nit sad right now, we intend on adding more plants....and I know, it needs a PWC, but here is a couple FTS's
 

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it opened :D

it had started to uncurl ever so slightly last night, and by this morning it was like this
 

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Beautiful!! Well done mommytron!! Thanks for the update! Is this your first flowering?
 
thanks :) yes, it's our first

here us another shot, and a couple taken last night of one of the otos giving it a hug
 

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Awww what a thoughtful lil guy! It just needed a lil love! He's so cute
 
hehehehe we love our otos :) unfortunately we just discovered we only have 5 out of 6....one mysteriously disappeared somewhere along the way :( but the remaining 5 are doing great
 
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